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Libertarian VP candidate now focusing on preventing a Trump presidency

Posted: 3:40 PM, Oct 05, 2016

Updated:2016-10-05 15:40:07-04

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Associated Press

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<p>Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson (R) and running mate, Bill Weld (L), talks to a crowd of supporters at a rally on August 6, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p>

BOSTON — Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld says he plans to focus exclusively on denying Republican Donald Trump the presidency with the hope of helping rebuild the GOP after November.

The former Republican governor of Massachusetts told The Boston Globe
Tuesday he still supports Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, but his top priority is defeating Trump. Weld has called Trump a "huckster."

Weld told the paper that while he disagrees with Democrat Hillary Clinton on fiscal and military issues, Trump's foreign and domestic agenda is so objectionable to be in "a class by itself."